Jun
29th
Sun
29th
Democratic areas are sopping up people with BA degrees; Republican areas are sopping up white people without degrees. Church membership is declining in Democratic areas and increasing in red counties. There are all these things telling people they should be around people like themselves. And every four years, this has political consequences.
— Bill Bishop, author of The Big Sort, as quoted in a Washington Post story on the political role reversal of the Virginias and the demographics of this shift across the nation.
